Under a DACA amnesty, American taxpayers would be left with a $26 billion bill. About one in five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one in seven would go on Medicaid. Since DACA’s inception under Obama, more than 2,100 illegal aliens have been kicked off the program after it was revealed that they were either criminals or gang members. JOHN BINDER

They claim all of North America for Mexico!

(WARNING! THE BELOW LINK IS GRAPHIC ON MEXICAN
HATRED OF LEGALS)

Second, where is the governor of California calling on AMLO to
stop it and go home? More to the point, is California so far gone
that no one objects to a foreigner criticizing a U.S. president on our soil?

California Senate approves ‘sanctuary state’ bill

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April 4 (UPI) — The California Senate passed a bill barring
local and state law enforcement from helping federal immigration enforcement.

Approval of the bill is seen as defiance of President Donald
Trump’s immigration policies.

Senate Bill 54, the “sanctuary state” bill, was passed by a
27-12 vote along party lines on Monday evening, with Democrats supporting the
measure and Republicans s opposing it. The bill will go to the State Assembly,
where Democrats hold a majority, and if approved, to Democratic Gov. Jerry
Brown.

Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, who introduced the bill,
called its passage a “rejection of President Trump’s false and cynical
portrayal of undocumented residents as a lawless community.”

The bill bars state and local law enforcement agencies from
using their resources to help in federal immigration enforcement. Inquiring
about immigration status, providing federal immigration authorities access to
interview a person in custody or assisting in immigration enforcement would be
prohibited under the bill.

Exceptions are included in the bill; it allows local agencies to
transfer individuals to federal immigration authorities if a judicial warrant
is present, or if the person has been previously convicted of a violent felony.
It also requires notification to federal authorities of releases of those
convicted of violent felonies.

“Our precious local law enforcement resources will be squandered
if police are pulled from their duties to arrest otherwise law-abiding maids,
busboys, laborers, mothers and fathers. Trust will be lost. Crimes will go
unreported for fear of deportation.” de Leon said {link:in a statement.
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The population of California’s undocumented immigrants ranges
between 2.35 million and 2.6 million people, the Public Policy Institute of
California has estimated. Several cities and counties in the state already have
“sanctuary” policies in place. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has
threatened to deny some federal funding to municipalities and states that do not
comply with federal immigration laws.

LA RAZA MEXICO’S
TRILLION DOLLAR LOOTING OF AMERICA

The staggering
cost of all that “cheap” Mexican labor:

MEXICANS SUCK IN
MORE WELFARE THAN LEGALS!

“The lifetime costs of Social Security and Medicare
benefits of illegal immigrant beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive amnesty
would be well over a trillion dollars, according to Heritage Foundation expert Robert
Rector’s prepared testimony for a House panel obtained in advance by Breitbart
News.”

THE
STAGGERING COST OF AMNESTY: non-enforcement is another
form of AMNESTY!

MEXICO IMMEDIATELY DENOUNCED THE DECREE AND FIRED SESSIONS.

By
Arthur Schaper

Townhall.com

In
California, illegals can vote: it’s possible and very likely. California’s
automatic motor-voter law all but assures that illegals seeking driver’s
licenses will get a ballot along with their license.

Miscreants
from any corner of the world can register to vote in California online, too. No
vetting, no assurance, no integrity.

Voter
fraud in broken inner city hellholes like Detroit and New York City cannot
compare with the ballot stuffing throughout the once Golden State.

… a state where half the murders
are by mexican gangs!

It didn’t stop Becerra, a prominent Latino
rights advocate who has served in Congress since 1993, from pushing for
the dealer’s release at the request of his father,
Horacio. The elder Vignali, a rich Los Angeles businessman, contributed
thousands of dollars to Becerra’s various campaigns and a favor was in
order.

Jerry Brown’s 12-Cent
Gas Tax Passes Legislature on Deadline

Associated
Press

Both houses of the California legislature
passed a 12-cent gasoline tax hike on Thursday, meeting Governor Jerry Brown’s
deadline to provide an estimated $52 billion in new revenues, ostensibly for
transportation infrastructure.

The bill, which also raises Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV)
fees, barely reached the two-thirds majority needed to raise taxes in both the
State Assembly and the State Senate. Passage marks a huge political victory for
Gov. Brown, who is in his fourth and final term as governor. The political
consequences for legislators, however, have yet to be seen, as voters have not
yet felt the pinch of a tax hike that, critics say, will hit rural and
working-class Californians hardest.

The vote in the State
Assembly was incredibly close, with the measure receiving no more than the 54
votes needed. The Los Angeles Timesreported: “The bill posed a test of the Democratic
supermajority, with members in swing districts wary of casting a politically
unpopular vote to raise taxes. Legislative leaders and the governor amped up
the arm-twisting in the hours before the vote, negotiating side deals to entice
members with projects in their districts.”

In the State Senate, the
vote was only slightly more favorable to the governor. He lost the support of
State Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda), a moderate Democrat who was the only member
of his party to vote against the bill. In a statement reported by the East Bay Times, Glazer wondered
why new taxes were necessary rather than diverting funds from the California
High-Speed Rail boondoggle. But Gov. Brown gained an ally in the one Republican
to vote for the new tax hike, State Sen. Anthony Canella (R-Ceres), who
supported the measure in exchange for a project in his district, according toyourcentralvalley.com.

The bill now awaits Brown’s signature. The gas tax
hike will be the largest in the state’s history, and the first in decades, in a
state that already has some of the highest gas taxes in America.

FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF MEXICAN

ILLEGAL
UNREGISTERED DEMS.

LA RAZA “THE RACE” NEIGHBORHOOD

DRUG DEALER MARIA “LA CHATA”

LEON… she voted dem for more!

“From the house, Maria
"Chata" Leon, an illegal immigrant, her family and associates
controlled drug and gang activity on the street for years, police said.”

The two-bedroom stucco
house at 3304 Drew St. in Glassell Park was once the center of one of the most
menacing drug marketplaces in Los Angeles.

From the house, Maria
"Chata" Leon, an illegal immigrant, her family and associates
controlled drug and gang activity on the street for years, police said.

During at least two
raids at the house, according to court documents, officers found guns and drugs
as well as surveillance cameras, laser trip wires and a shrine to Jesus
Malverde, a Mexican folk hero whom drug traffickers have made their patron
saint.

MICHELLE
MALKIN: 15 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA "The Race".

No. 5.

"The Race" gives
mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of
Aztlan (MEChA). The
late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as
"a radical racist group …

one of the most anti-American
groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s,
and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West."

*

*

MEXICO’S
CITY of SANTA ANA, in the ORANGE COUNTY, California should secede and join
Mexico.

MEXICANS ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, XAVIER BECERRA AND
KEVINde Leon and ethnic cleansing of
NON-HISPANICS from California prior to annexation by Mexico.

THE REAL FACE OF CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN
OCCUPATION:

“The California-Mexico
border would surely be opened wide, prompting a spike in unfettered immigration
by desperately poor people, drug dealers, and gang members to what is already a
virtually lawless and out-of-control welfare state.”

Lou Dobbs Tonight

In California, League of United Latin American
Citizens has adopted a resolution to declare "California Del Norte" a
sanctuary zone for immigrants. The declaration urges the Mexican government to
invoke its rights under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo "to seek third‑nation
neutral arbitration of disputes concerning immigration laws and their
enforcement." We’ll have the story.

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Colin Flaherty is the author of the #1 Amazon Bestseller Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry. Many of the episodes in this article can be found by clicking here for a link to his YouTube channel."And yes, professor, black criminality is just as wildly out of proportion in Washington as it is in the rest of country. Even more so."

"Like the sister who said her brother should not have been shot during a home invasion robbery because “where else is he going to get his money?”

As long as black people are permanent victims of relentless white
racism, cops should not chase them, juries should not convict them, judges
should not sentence them, schools should not punish them, and white victims
should not complain about the black crime and violence so wildly out
of proportion.

This is what a growing number of lawmakers, professors and, of
course, reporters are prescribing as a way to “improve the way our system
serves justice.”

The latest came on NPR a few days ago when Georgetown Law
professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Butler broke it down for the
racially unenlightened:

“If you go to criminal court in D.C., you would think that white
people don’t commit crimes,” Butler said. “White people don’t use drugs, they
don’t get into fights, they don’t steal, because all you see are African
American people.”

Before you pack your child off to Georgetown Law school -- or if
you usually do not believe something too ridiculous to be true -- you might
want to hear the distinguished professor wax at length on this video: Racial Jury Nullification at Georgetown Law.

One group of “African American people” Butler will never see in a
D.C. court are the black people who beat the white husband of an NPR executive
into a bloody, broken mess on the D.C. Metro line. You can find the details
here from my account at the American Thinker, but not from NPR, which never
covered it. NPR Another Victim of Black Violence and Denial.

Neither will Butler find the black people who attacked the NPR
producer from Kentucky, in D.C. on company business. You can find the details
of that in the scintillating best seller Don’t Make the Black
Kids Angry. But not on NPR.

And yes, professor, black criminality is just as wildly out of
proportion in Washington as it is in the rest of country. Even more so.

Butler says there are two justice systems in America, one for white
people and one for black. He proposes to correct this inequity with a system of
racial jury nullification to promote the new entitlement of black criminality:
“I encourage any juror who thinks the police or prosecutors have crossed the
line in a particular case to refuse to convict.”

To make his case, Butler trotted out some information from the
National Institute of Health which he says proves that black people and white
people use drugs in the same amount, but black people are arrested and
convicted many times more than their drug-using white counterparts.

QED: Courtroom racism is rampant and if you do not see that, well,
you know what that makes you.

That is part of the greatest lie of our generation and here is
why.

The National Institute of Health -- and everyone else who repeats
that bogus claim -- are using info gathered from the Census Bureau: Instead of
filling out a questionnaire, sometimes the Census Bureau will go into a home
and ask the occupants a series of other questions, including if they use
illegal drugs.

When they do, black and white people basically give the same
answers in the same amounts.

That is called self-reporting and it boils down to this: can we
depend on drug users to tell the truth about their drug use? Short answer:
No. Long answer, when you actually test people, doctors find there are two
determinants of whether the person was actually telling the truth about their
drug use: One, were they recently released from prison?

Two, are they black?

Yes, they actually say that.

Here’s a summary of a few of the peer-reviewed studies from the
scintillating best seller Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry:

Some doctors down at Johns Hopkins University actually found out
what happens when you test the reliability of self-reporting of marijuana and
other drug use among black people. A study of 290 African American men in
Baltimore, Maryland undergoing treatment for hypertension showed that
self-reporting of illicit drug use is unreliable.

Only 48 of the participants reported drug use but urine drug tests
revealed that 131 had used drugs. With self-reporting, drug use among black
people was 16 percent. With testing, 45 percent. Ooops. There’s more. Different
study. Different journal.

According to the medical journal Addictive Behaviors,
“underreporting of cocaine was documented with urine testing validation as well
where African Americans in comparison to Caucasians who were urine positive
were about 6 times less likely to report cocaine use when other factors are
controlled for.”

Translation: When you ask, white people and black people report
using cocaine in about the same amount. But when you test, black people are six
times more likely to use cocaine. And lie about it.

More from the same journal for you science junkies: “The present
study also identified predictors of discrepancies between self-report and hair
testing. Race was the most salient predictor of cocaine disagreement.”

“Even when other factors were controlled for, the self-report and
hair test results for African Americans were more discrepant than for
non-African Americans, a finding consistent with past studies (Fendrich, et
al., 1999; Feucht, Stephens, & Walker, 1994).”

“In a large study of youth (9 − 20), underreporting of cocaine was
documented with urine testing validation as well (Fendrich & Yanchun, 1994)
where African Americans in comparison to Caucasians who were urine positive
were about 6 times less likely to report cocaine use when other factors are
controlled for.”

This is hardly new: ask a cop what happens when they pull over a
black person for anything from a routine traffic stop to investigating a
murder. ’99 percent tell us we are only doing that because they are black,’
said dozens and dozens of active and retired cops to me over the last five
years.

What Butler wants, many cities already have: they are called Bronx
juries -- where black people tend not to convict black defendants. Even
Hollywood uber-liberal David Simon had to acknowledge that in his 2013 book:

The effect of race on the judicial system is freely acknowledged
by prosecutors and defense attorneys-black and white alike -- although the
issue is rarely raised directly in court. Race is instead a tacit presence that
accompanies almost every panel of twelve into a Baltimore jury room.

Once, in a rare display, a black defense attorney actually pointed
to her own forearm while giving closing arguments to an all-black panel:
“Brothers and sisters,” she said, as two white detectives went out of their
minds in the back row of the gallery,“ I think we all know what this case is
about.”

In a Cleveland nail salon, a black customer was raging in and out
of the store when confronted with the manager who restrained her, then fought
with her until the police arrived.

“You can’t do this to me,” she said in a viral
video. “I’m black… And besides, you are white and you don’t know shit.” A
few days later a few dozen protestors gathered to remind reporters that putting
your hands on a black woman for any reason is illegal. Even if she is trying to steal from you.

in Philadelphia, the NAACP is demanding the district attorney
prosecute an Asian business owner after chasing and shooting a black robber
with a knife -- and the businessman’s money.

The NAACP joined hundreds of parents and groups around the country
who wonder why people with guns have to defend themselves against black people
with bad intentions? Like the sister who said her brother should not have been
shot during a home invasion robbery because “where else is he going to get his
money?”

Or
the parents who criticized the Pizza Hut employee for shooting
their son while he was trying to rob them. After all, it wasn't their money and
didn’t insurance cover it? So why did their son have to die just for committing
an armed robbery?

Crime is the new black entitlement.

Down in Jackson, Mississippi, a black city councilman said the
black leaders of that city should encourage black people to “throw rocks and
bricks and bottles” at police if they chase black criminals into their town.
“That will send a message we don’t want you in here.”

The councilman would also like the taxpayers of Jackson to pay for
any loot that a black citizen may have stolen. Thus removing any other need for
police to chase the “babies” in that city after they commit a crime.

Next stop, Madison, Wisconsin: a black pastor who was a top
official at the University of Wisconsin and who now sits on the bench as a
judge, echoed the councilman about arresting black criminals: “I just dont
think they should be prosecuting cases of people who steal from Wal-Mart,” said
Dane County Judge Everett Mitchell. “I dont think Target -- or all those other
big box places that have insurance -- should be using that as justification to
use aggressive police practices.”

“They do that all the time to justify why they are going to over
police our children,” said the judge.

The over-policing thing was a hot topic on the Democrat
presidential campaign trail last year. Berry and Hillary each tried to outdo
the other with the sympathy for the plight of the black criminal: Hillary
talked about why more black people are in prison than white people “for no good
reason.” And Bernie loved talking about the racist over-policing of black
people as well.

“What we have to do is end over-policing in African-American
neighborhoods,” Bernie said during the Democrat debate in Milwaukee. “The
reality is that both the African American community and the white community do
marijuana at about equal rates. Reality is four time as many blacks get
arrested for marijuana.”

There’s that big lie again. And there are the thousands of
reporters and public officials eager to repeat it with enthusiasm, without a
trace of truth.

Let’s head over to Philadelphia to hear from Judge Wayne Bennett,
who writes a blog called the "Field Negro." Bennett had just read one
of the columns from the Great Thomas Sowell where he talked about the modest
contributions of your humble correspondent to the field of black criminality
and journalistic denial.

Sowell wanted to know how crime as the new black entitlement could happen. Bennett supplied a popular rationale: White
people deserve it.

“No matter how violent young black punks are towards white people,
it will never make up for all the violence against people of color throughout
this nation’s history.”

This judge could have been channeling the former President of the
United States and thousands of those who worked for him and made black on white
racial hostility mainstream.

One of the most active fronts in this fight for crime as the new
black entitlement are the schools. For eight years, the Obama administration
warned school officials throughout the country that there is no reason to
believe there is any difference between white and black children when it comes
to behavior and grades.

So any difference in discipline and academic performance can be
the result of one cause only: White racism.

That caused schools around the country to stop calling police for
criminal offenses such as drug use and assault. And replace it with
“restorative justice,” which involves lots of talking and lots of promises
to never do it again.

In New York City, the mayor last week ordered city schools to
“stop documenting” what school officials calls minor crimes such as drugs and
other misconduct.

The reason is known to every teacher and administrator in America:
Black students are victims of white racism in the classroom that causes
teachers to pick on them for no reason whatsoever. Thus resulting in lower
grades and more suspensions.

No more.

The list of public officials calling to make crime the new black
entitlement is long and growing. Out in Kansas City, they liked their mayor
Emmanual Cleaver so much they named a freeway after him.

Now he’s a congressman where he serves as an enthusiastic member
of the Black Caucus: every member of that caucus at one time or another has
agreed: Black people and white people commit the same amount of crime, but the
only reason black people are arrested more often is because of too many police
in black neighborhoods.

‘Take the police out of black neighborhoods and put them in white
neighborhoods and you would have the same amount of crime,’ they say, over
and over and over.

In Kansas City, large groups of black people descend dozens of
times a year on that town’s entertainment district called the Country Club
Plaza. There they cause violence and mayhem and property destruction with
predictable regularity.

On one of Cleaver’s visits to his hometown, Cleaver told a local
reporter he did not support curfews to outlaw the large scale black mob
violence at the Plaza, because “all that would do is make a lot of black kids
angry.”

An army of law enforcement officers led by
Torrance police arrested 13 reputed South Los Angeles gang members Friday in a
massive pre-dawn operation to break up an organized ring believed responsible
for some 5,000 residential burglaries in five Southern California counties.

Black Lives Matter cashes in on black
capitalism

By Lawrence Porter and Nancy Hanover
4 April 2017

Last summer, the Ford Foundation, one of the most powerful
private foundations in the world, announced that it was organizing to channel
$100 million to the Black Lives Movement over the next six years.

“By partnering with Borealis Philanthropy, Movement Strategy
Center and Benedict Consulting to found the Black-Led Movement Fund, Ford has
made six-year investments in the organizations and networks that compose the
Movement for Black Lives,” according to the Ford Foundation web site. In a
statement of support, Ford called for the group to grow and prosper. “We want
to nurture bold experiments and help the movement build the solid foundation
that will enable it to flourish.”

In the wake of the monetary commitment by the big-business
foundation network, Black Lives Matter (BLM) has explicitly embraced black
capitalism. It appears the group is now well positioned to cash in on the
well-known #BLM Twitter hashtag. Announcing its first “big initiative for
2017,” BLM cofounder Patrisse Cullors stated that it would be partnering with
the Fortune 500 New York ad agency J. Walter Thompson (JWT) to create “the
biggest and most easily accessible black business database in the country.”

BLM joins the ranks of prestigious JWT clientele including HSBC
Bank, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, and Shell Oil. JWT also represents the
US Marine Corps. CEO Lynn Power suggested that the BLM partnership would
provide the advertising firm with an opportunity to “shape culture positively.”
“I am really glad that our partnership with Black Lives Matter is giving us the
opportunity to play a truly active role,” she enthused.

The joint project, Backing Black Business, is a nationwide
interactive map of black-owned enterprises. This virtual Google-based directory
has nothing to do with opposing police violence, from which Black Lives Matter
ostensibly emerged. Cullors nevertheless portrayed the venture as enabling
blacks to have “somewhere for us to go and feel seen and safe,” concluding, “In
these uncertain times, we need these places more than ever.”

Such developments may come as a surprise to those who embraced
the sentiment that “black lives matter” because they saw it as an oppositional
rebuke to the militarization of police and the disproportionate police murder
of African Americans. Many did not realize that the political aims

and nature
of Black Lives Matter were of

an entirely different nature.

In fact, the election of Donald Trump has served to put even
more distance between the large layers of workers and young people opposed to
police violence and the privileged upper middle class layer that Black Lives
Matter represents.The latter, developments have shown, are leveraging #BLM as
a brand to make a name for themselves, find lucrative sinecures and, more
generally, get on the gravy train.

OneUnited Bank - Amir debit card

BLM’s most recent scheme is even more crass than Backing Black
Business. In February, BLM launched a “black debit card” underwritten by
OneUnited Bank. “A historic partnership has been born between OneUnited Bank,
the largest Black-owned bank in the country, and #BlackLivesMatter to organize
the $1.2 trillion in spending power of Black people and launch the Amir card
during Black History Month,” boasts OneUnited’s web site.

The debit card project is a part of a larger campaign by black
multimillionaire celebrities, including Beyonce, Solange and Queen Latifah, to
promote investment in black-owned banks. Describing the Amir debit card as
another form of “black empowerment,” BLM spokeswoman Melina Abdullah called it
“important on a lot of levels.” She said it will feature the “face of this
beautiful black boy who will evoke for many folks people like Trayvon Martin.”

BLM has invested its money in OneUnited since its inception,
according to Abdullah, who is also the chair of the Pan-African Studies
Department at California State University, Los Angeles.

Teri Williams,
president and chief operating officer of OneUnited, and the wife of its
chairman and CEO, Kevin Cohee, echoed Abdullah’s sales pitch, adding that “when
I hand [the Amir card] to someone, I’m saying to them that black livesdomatter, that black moneydoesmatter and that we are an important
consumer.” Debit card holders will receive regular notices requesting BLM
donations, the bank noted.

The dubious history of the bank has

apparently been no barrier
to the partnership

with BLM. OneUnited, the recipient of a

generous Troubled
Asset Relief Program

(TARP) loan in the aftermath of the 2008

financial crisis,
was subject to federal audit

when it failed to meet the terms of the

agreement.

The audit provoked a minor scandal when it

was revealed that the
bank had provided

CEO Cohee a lavish lifestyle including a

leased Porsche, a
“handsome living

allowance,” an $880,000 condo in Miami

Beach, and $26,500 per
month to lease a

mansion in Santa Monica, California. The

government’s generosity,
it was widely

suspected, was connected to the fact that

Democratic
congresswoman Maxine

Waters’s husband, who was also on the

bank’s board of
directors and owned stock in

the company, stood to lose over $350,000 if

the
bank failed.

The racialist and pro-capitalist politics of
Black Lives Matter

From the beginning, the “mothers of the movement” Alicia Garza,
Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi—who collectively adopted the famous
hashtag—specifically opposed uniting blacks, whites and immigrants against the
brutal class-war policies of the capitalist state. Instead, the group did its
best to confine anti-police violence protests within the framework of the
capitalist system and push a racialist and pro-capitalist agenda.

Even prior to 2013, however, all three of the cofounders had
developed close ties to corporations, foundations, academia and/or
government-sponsored agencies. Tometi, in particular, was a well-known quantity
in these circles. She had spoken at the UN (presenting at the Global Forum on
Migration and Commission on the Status of Women), had been to the White House
and met with Obama liaison Heather Foster, and addressed the Aspen Institute, a
high-level think tank associated with the US military and intelligence
community.

With one eye on the mounting protests and another on their hopes
for a future Hillary Clinton administration, the group created a political
platform in August 2016 entitled “Vision 4 Black Lives.” It was initiated by an
amalgam of “non-hierarchical” but affiliated groups under the “BLM umbrella.”
The platform centers on the demand for “ending the war on Black people.”

Promoting racial exclusivity, it calls for “reparations for past
and continuing harms,” “divestment from institutions that harm black people,”
the right to high-quality education “for black people,” a federal jobs program
“for black people,” community control and black self-determination. Along the
same lines, it calls for the defense of “black immigrants,” despite the plight
of tens of millions of non-black immigrants as a result of imperialist war and
exploitation the world over.

While these racialist demands are the axis of the Vision 4 Black
Lives program, it also includes a smattering of democratic demands including
free education for all, special protections for queer and trans students, free
health services, free day care, and “cuts” to military expenditures. The BLM
program lines up with a race-based variant of the “humanitarian”
pro-imperialist agenda, critiquing “American wars” as “unjust and destructive
to Black communities globally.”

The central purpose of “Vision 4 Black Lives,” and Black Lives Matter,
has nothing to do with securing education, health care or other social rights
for any section of the working class. It is to divide the working class,
subordinate

opposition to the Democratic Party and win

more opportunities for
privileged sections of

the upper middle class.

The BLM program makes no bones about its entirely bourgeois,
legislative orientation. “Congress would have to amend the Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2005,” or “the DOJ [Department of Justice] has some
discretion in how much funding it awards to police departments,” etc., the
program states. That is, the Democrats can be pressured to implement reforms.

The real substance of the group’s policies is the unremitting
injection of racial divisions and animosity into the movement of opposition to
police violence. It aims to update the age-old tactic of divide and conquer,
seeking to prevent the unity of the working class—black, white and
immigrant—from challenging the capitalist system, the source of the deepening
social and political oppression.

For this service to the bourgeois state, they are well rewarded.
The Ford Foundation—with its long history stretching from its CIA fronts in the
1940s and the promotion of black capitalism in Detroit in the aftermath of the
1967 riots—provided a financial anchor for BLM’s expansion.

The Ford Foundation enlisted other such
“philanthro-capitalists”: the Hill-Snowden Foundation, Solidaire (Ford
Foundation and Leah Hunt-Hendrix, granddaughter of the oil and gas tycoon H.L.
Hunt), the NoVo Foundation (started by Warren Buffett’s son Peter and
daughter-in-law Jennifer Buffett in 2006), the Association of Black Foundation
Executives (Kellogg Foundation and JPMorgan Chase and its Black Organization
for Leadership Development [BOLD]), the Neighborhood Funders Group–Funders for
Justice (also funded by Ford), among others.

In addition to
the money, the leadership of BLM has been showered with honorariums, awards and
junkets, both in the US and internationally. Cullors was made Woman of the Year
for Justice Speakers byGlamourmagazine, made World’s Greatest Leader
byFortunemagazine
and awarded an honorary doctorate from Clarkson University.

The media and the state

While
spontaneous protests began to adopt the #BLM hashtag as opposition to police
violence developed, it was the promotion by the bourgeois media that brought
#BLM into national prominence. A study,Beyond the Hashtags, by
Deen Freelon, Charlton C. McIlwaine and Meredith D. Clark, noted this fact,
pointing to the large role of “mainstream media and corporations.”

Black Lives Matter logo

This media role became obvious as social tensions reached a
boiling point with the brutal gunning down of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in
Cleveland and the acquittal of the killer of Michael Brown in November 2014.
The corporate-controlled press responded to the outpouring of opposition among
both black and white youth by consistently describing Black Lives Matter
representatives as the official opposition to police violence.

As data accumulated by killedbypolice.net and other news media
sources underscored the fact that police killings were directed against poor
and working class whites as well as inner-city blacks, the issues of social
inequality, poverty and class began to take center stage. The more universal
slogan “All Lives Matter” came into wide use.

BLM denounced the specter of growing class unity and decried
“All Lives Matter” as illegitimate and even racist. The group focused its
demands on black “community control,” federal tracking of police killings by
race and affirmative-action-type government programs.

BLM personnel meanwhile were being groomed for top-level
official positions. Leading Black Lives Matter spokespersons made repeated
trips to the White House in 2015 and 2016 to hold meetings with President Obama
and his representatives. The Democratic Party was conferring official authority
upon the group. During a meeting in February 2016, Obama went even further,
praising DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett, two Black Lives Matter leaders.
“They are much better organizers than I was when I was their age, and I am
confident that they are going to take America to new heights.”

Later in July, at a separate meeting with Obama, Mckesson and
Packnett agreed that Packnett would serve as an official representative on
Obama’s Task Force for 21st Century Policing, with Attorney General Loretta
Lynch and National Association of Police Organizations President Michael
McHale.

Ford Foundation support to Black Lives Matter

These remarkable meetings of top Black Lives Matter associates
with the US president and his top police agencies demonstrated that the group
had no objection to being incorporated into the state apparatus. Indeed, a
“seat at the table” was their aim. Anticipating further positions in the next
administration, Black Lives Matter associates Mckesson, Packnett and Johnetta
“Netta” Elzie met with Hillary Clinton in October 2015 for a lengthy 90-minute
meeting on “policy questions.” Clinton was then the frontrunner for US
president as well as the CIA and intelligence community’s preferred candidate.

The Sanders factor

During this period, the campaign of Bernie Sanders for president
began to rally unexpectedly large crowds, and the ruling elites became
increasingly nervous. Fraudulently presenting himself as a socialist advocating
“political revolution against the billionaire class,” Sanders won the support
of large numbers of youth and workers.

It was in this context that decisions were taken to provide
support to the divisive racialist agenda of BLM at the highest levels of
government. This policy decision was in tandem with Clinton’s escalating
drumbeat of identity politics, which she increasingly relied upon as a
political counterweight to Sanders, even using the mantra “Black Lives Matter”
in her campaign speeches. For their part, BLM leaders Mckesson and Packnett
endorsed Clinton; Garza, while not endorsing, said she cast her vote for
Clinton.

BLM is now being compensated for its role in seeking to shore up
support for capitalism. However, they will get little traction peddling the
discredited old canard, first advanced by President Richard Nixon in the late
1960s, that millionaire black businesspeople represent some kind of advance for
the black population as a whole.

Class
differentiation is, in fact, now greaterwithinthe African American community than in
society at large. While the majority of black families are living in or near
poverty, the number of black millionaires has grown to 35,000. But this small
group, and those immediately below its gilded ranks, are the well-off layers
and social interests for which Black Lives Matter speaks.

BLM’s hostility to the working class and reactionary rhetoric
play an ever more dangerous role in the current political climate, dovetailing
with the extreme right wing and legitimizing racialism.

Their
assessment of the election of Donald Trump demonized the white working class, a
view also promoted by Hillary Clinton, theNew York Timesand other pro-Democratic Party media.
Utterly hostile to the unification of the working class against the class-war
policies of the new government, BLM sees the possibility of “opportunities”
under the Trump administration. Vowing to train 300 black leaders to take
positions on “school boards, city councils, neighborhood councils, and every
branch of government,” the group looks to a further political future within the
Democratic Party.

Under unprecedented conditions of imperialist war, social
inequality and state repression, Black Lives Matter finds themselves now
eagerly entering bourgeois politics and embracing black business schemes.
Moreover, their bent for self-enrichment has a logical conclusion. To maintain
a seat at the table, they will collaborate even with the likes of Trump.

The use and promotion of Black Lives Matter by key elements of
the capitalist state demonstrate once again the class role of identity
politics. For workers and young people looking for a way to fight, the social
physiognomy and political program of Black Lives Matter stand as an object
lesson on the role of bourgeois class forces and the reactionary dead-end of
racial politics.